The home for Vermont Public's coverage of housing issues affecting the state of Vermont.
Carly Berlin is a Housing/Infrastructure Reporter for Vermont Public and VTDigger and is a corps member with the national journalism nonprofit Report for America.
Lexi Krupp is Vermont Public's Upper Valley/Northeast Kingdom reporter, focusing on housing and health care.
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The Plainfield Select Board is asking voters to support borrowing $600,000 to purchase almost 24 acres near the village center for a proposed housing development. -
The new COTS downtown shelter will serve up to 56 people, a major boost to the building’s capacity earlier this year. But it’s still not enough. -
State officials want to clone Jonah Richard, an Orange County native who’s building housing at a clip in the town where his family has lived for generations. -
The organizations are asking leaders in Scott’s administration to halt the changes if they cannot prove they have the authority to implement them. -
A new documentary from Maine-based filmmaker Richard Kane looks at social issues in Bangor. -
From Montpelier to Rutland to Waterbury, additional spaces are in the works for unhoused people, totaling about 100 seasonal and year-round shelter beds coming online during the next few months. They can’t come quickly enough. -
The Winston Prouty Center for Child and Family Development recently received a $1 million donation to reopen a family shelter that closed after the state ended its emergency housing program in June. -
A Rutland-based housing nonprofit wants to buy a former assisted living facility in the city and create much-needed affordable housing as well as transitional housing for families in crisis. Local pushback and zoning issues may derail the plan. -
Eight municipalities in Vermont have adopted "situation tables" — regular meetings of law enforcement and social services agencies that are meant to coordinate responses to intertwined social challenges, like poverty and addiction, that can sometimes lead to crime. -
No one had published a full accounting of the extraordinary amounts of public money spent on housing since 2020. We pieced it together.
